Quizzes and Eggs: Exploring the Impact of Course Design Elements on Students’ Engagement

Lisa Michael, Irene-Angelica Chounta

2023

Abstract

In this paper, we explored the impact of course design elements that aim to support and sustain students’ engagement during a 12-week online course. The course we analyzed targeted higher education, master-level students of Computer Science and Educational Technologies, and took place fully online during the COVID-19 pandemic. The course was facilitated by a Learning Management System (LMS), and due to the circumstances, the instructor’s primary goal was to motivate students to actively participate during the course’s duration. To that end, the instructor implemented a course design focused on integrating elements such as interactive activities, short quizzes, hidden “easter eggs,” and real-time webinars. To study the impact of these elements on students’ activity, we carried out an exploratory analysis of students’ activity as recorded by the log files of the LMS and the qualitative feedback that students provided to the instructor. Our results suggest that the course’s design supported sustaining students’ engagement. The level of students’ activity varied for the learning materials and resources, but we confirmed a high usage of the quizzes over the course’s duration.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Michael L. and Chounta I. (2023). Quizzes and Eggs: Exploring the Impact of Course Design Elements on Students’ Engagement. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, SciTePress, pages 25-34. DOI: 10.5220/0011745000003470

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu23,
author={Lisa Michael and Irene-Angelica Chounta},
title={Quizzes and Eggs: Exploring the Impact of Course Design Elements on Students’ Engagement},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2023},
pages={25-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011745000003470},
isbn={978-989-758-641-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Quizzes and Eggs: Exploring the Impact of Course Design Elements on Students’ Engagement
SN - 978-989-758-641-5
AU - Michael L.
AU - Chounta I.
PY - 2023
SP - 25
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0011745000003470
PB - SciTePress